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BIÑAN CITY, Laguna (Eagle News) – Nagbabala ang Department of Health sa publiko laban sa mga sakit ngayong tag-ulan, kasunod ng naranasang pagbaha sa ilang lugar sa bansa. Ayon sa DOH, ilan sa mga sakit na nakukuha sa tubig-baha ay ang diarrhea, dermatitis, conjunctivitis, leptospirosis, dengue at iba pang waterborne diseases. Sinabi ni Health Asst. Sec. Eric Tayag na ang mga waterborne diseases at respiratory diseases ay maiiwasan naman kung vigilante lamang at marunong mangalaga […]
ILIGAN CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) has assured that cholera will not spread in the evacuation centers in Iligan City. According to the DOH-Region 10, although some of the evacuees suffered from diarrhea, nausea and stomach pain, and they were positively affected by cholera, they were immediately taken to the hospital for treatment. The patients were already released on June 3 and 5. DOH-10 Regional Director Nimfa Torrizo also pointed […]
SANAA, Yemen (AFP) – Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital. The Huthi-run health ministry said in a statement carried overnight by the rebels’ Saba news agency that cases of cholera had worsened and that it was “unable to contain this disaster.” It launched an appeal for help from international humanitarian organizations to deal with […]
by André VIOLLAZ UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday apologized for the first time to the people of Haiti for the role played by the world body’s peacekeepers in sparking a devastating cholera epidemic in the country. “On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly we apologize to the Haitian people,” he said three times — in Haitian Creole, French and English — to […]
UNITED NATIONS,, United States (AFP) – The United Nations will give “material” aid to cholera victims in Haiti and their families, the secretary general’s spokesman said Friday, citing the international body’s “moral responsibility.” UN chief Ban Ki-moon, in a statement by a spokesman, also noted that a decision Thursday by a US federal appeals court “upheld the immunity of the organization from legal proceedings” brought against it over the cholera crisis. US courts have consistently found […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – by Amelie BARON The United Nations’ belated acknowledgement it played a role in a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed nearly 10,000 people was hailed by victims’ advocates Thursday as vindication of their efforts to hold the world body accountable. The epidemic broke out in 2010 in the vicinity of a base housing UN peacekeepers, in an impoverished Caribbean country that previously had been considered cholera-free. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s […]
A cholera outbreak is feared in coming months in Syria, where other water-borne diseases such as hepatitis A and typhoid are on the rise due to poor sanitation, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday. Safe drinking water is available at about one-third of the level it was before the conflict erupted nearly five years ago, and supplies are cut-off to punish civilians at times, it said. Some 31,460 cases of hepatitis A were reported […]
